What we publish.
Two reports on how frontier technology reaches Latin America, the data they were built from, and shorter analysis published between them.
Reports
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Forthcoming August 27, 2026 109 pagesMitigating AI Risks in Latin America
Identity Infrastructure, Institutional Capacity and the Path to Adoption
Whether decentralised identifiers, verifiable credentials and zero-knowledge proofs can work as practical infrastructure against AI privacy risk in the region. Five identity deployments examined, from QuarkID in Buenos Aires to Proyecto DIDI on LACChain, against what each could actually carry.
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Published September 23, 2025 120 pagesAccelerating Deep Tech in Latin America
Opportunities, Challenges & Recommendations
A study of 2,566 deep tech ventures across the region, the valuation discount they trade at, and twenty recommendations for closing it. Built from company-level classification, five roundtables and more than a hundred interviews with founders, investors and government actors.
Insights
Shorter pieces, published between reports.
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Where the New Money Goes Inside Latin American Deep Tech
Biotechnology is 61% of Latin America’s deep tech companies and AI 11% by company count, on the IDB mapping that EMERGE’s 2025 Radar reproduces. Among companies founded between 2023 and 2025, Dealroom reports AI-core firms taking roughly 70% of the rounds those cohorts closed. Here is how to read the two together, and where the pair points a founder, an allocator or a ministry next.
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The R&D Gap Is Latin America’s Largest Lever: 0.57% of GDP and the Instruments That Move It
Latin America and the Caribbean spend 0.57% of GDP on research and development against a 1.92% global average on UNESCO’s 2026 release. Raising that level is the highest-value policy move available to the region, and the instruments that would raise it are already running in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
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Fourteen Deep Tech Companies Latin America Has Already Built
From a 34-satellite constellation flown out of Buenos Aires to Antarctic DNA-repair enzymes in Montevideo: eleven of the fourteen companies we profiled are already recorded at TRL 9. What each one makes, who funded it, and what the set tells a founder, an allocator or a ministry about where the region is strong.